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Madden 13 Patch #3 Released Today

A new patch was released earlier today that made a few significant improvements to Madden NFL 13.  This patch focuses on putting in a few things that many fans felt were left out of the game as well as fixing any problems that were brought up in the first month.

We have a full list of what this patch includes below.  Let us know in the comments section if you think they left anything out.

Feature Additions

•Custom Rosters Offline: Added the ability to start an offline career with a custom roster.

•Connected Careers Edit Player: Added the ability to edit gear and information for players in a league.

•Coach Mode in Connected Careers: Added the ability to use coach mode in Connected Careers.

•Changing Schemes in Connected Careers: Added the ability to change offensive and defensive schemes as a coach.

•Offline Play Along in Connected Careers: Added the ability for multiple people to join a CCM game. This applies to coaches only.

•Draft Clock: Added a draft clock during the draft that is displayed on screen if you leave the draft interface to view rosters, depth charts, etc.

•Draft Filter: Added a filter to the draft screen to display players that have been drafted.

•Connected Careers Practice XP: Added the ability for user controlled players to earn extra XP in practice mode through the stats they accumulate.

Gameplay Tuning

•Fixed an issue where WRs were dropping too many passes when playing on All Madden difficulty setting.

•Fixed an issue where it was too easy to time the kick meter on FGs and PATs in user vs. user games.

•Fixed an issue where punt returners were moving away from the landing spot if you called a fair catch while letting the CPU control the player.

•Fixed an issue where someone who attempted to bull rush with the R stick once the ball was snapped activated run commit.

Commentary

•Added over a dozen logic fixes to make our commentary more intelligent.

Presentation

•Fixed an issue where specific offensive player celebrations were not triggering.

•Fixed an issue where the referee was backwards when calling a penalty.

•Fixed an issue with the Giants away uniforms (missing a sleeve stripe).

Connected Careers

•Fixed an issue where Offline Gameplay AI/Logic did not match the logic in Play Now.

•Fixed an issue where playing the game on All-Madden is too easy.

•Fixed an issue where changing the camera setting in CCM game works for single player.

•Fixed an issue where League Sliders had limited impact on difficulty.

•Fixed an issue where the Accelerated Clock did not function in an online CCM game when the option was set to On.

•Fixed an issue where you could not turn on/off GameFlow in CCM.

•Fixed an issue where you were unable to sign Free Agents during the season.

•Fixed an issue where ‘Starting a League’ would reset Player Schemes.

•Fixed an issue where after declining a trade offer, you are no longer able to accept or decline another offer.

•Fixed an issue where you could exploit supersim to run the game clock indefinitely.

•Fixed some spelling and polish issues in the News and Twitter.

•Fixed an issue where a coach could make a contract offer to a user controlled player.

•Fixed an issue where you are forced to select a throwing style for a created player that is not a QB.

•Fixed an issue where turning Auto-Start to off does not save week to week.

•Fixed an issue where you can see rookie overall ratings by accessing the player card of the prospect through Team Needs.

•Fixed an issue where changing Auto-Sub Frequency does not change the correct data.

•Fixed an issue where the profanity filter was preventing offline players from typing in their names.

•Fixed an issue where you can draft a player and then trade down while the draft is paused. The issue resulted in the user keeping both the traded picks and drafted player.

Stability

•Fixed numerous crashes.

•Fixed an issue with the in-game pause menu disappearing.

Madden Ultimate Team

•Changed the Packs button to Store Button.

•Condensed Leaderboards and Help menus.

•Implemented the ability to view videos from the hub.

•Implemented Store Panel Changes.

•Moved Auctions/Trades to a separate menu option.

•Fixed several Solo Challenge exploits

Playbooks

•Fixed an issue where the Hail Mary formation in a custom playbook had a blank play that resulted in a broken formation and invisible players if selected.

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JCKing
JCKing
11 years ago

Why does the computer reject all trades in Careers even if the desired player is at a lower ranking and added 1st round picks???

collin24
collin24
11 years ago

What about the inability to press a receiver on the left side of the scrren on PS3?

Jeff Clark
Jeff Clark
11 years ago
Reply to  collin24

I feel you on that

Jimmy Anderson
Jimmy Anderson
11 years ago

Thanks for coach mode in careers… Does it kick in atomatically for an already active career?

kepickle
kepickle
11 years ago

I’d like to edit players positions in CCM for coaches so i can move a RG to center or a FB to TE or MLB to OLB or CB to safety
NOW Look at Matt Roth & Shawne Merriman Both are 3=4 OLB but in a 4-3 both become DE i should be able to move them to what my scheme is

lazy eye thom
lazy eye thom
11 years ago
Reply to  kepickle

true!! it effects my draft not being able to draft a college DE and make him an OLB in the pros.

lazy eye thom
lazy eye thom
11 years ago

besides the post play physics. why can’t they fix the game so that I don’t have to always manualy disable kinect mode and game flow? I turned them off when starting my ccm but still have to turn off before each game… ! annoying!

B_Wheel
B_Wheel
11 years ago

1. Fix needed for custom audibles with custom DEFENSE playbooks.
2. Fix kick return formation error with custom playbooks. Just terrible that This has not been fixed year after year.
3. Also add formation substitutions separate from depth chart so I don’t have to do it in game. If I want to use a certain RB in a certain formation let me change this before the game starts and save it. Or if I want to move a DE to 3 technique DT for my Dime formation let me do this and save it. Even a very old version of NCAA football had this.
4. Also list Craig Stevens on the Titans as a TE not a FB.

termites21
termites21
11 years ago

Press isn’t to good this year